Re: Common music database?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

So I'm trying to restart this thread again.  I was talking to Jamie
McCracken about Tracker, his replacement for medusa.  He has some
interesting ideas about using it as a music backend.  Tracker is
an extensible metadata daemon, as well as an indexer.

So the nice win we could get is that we would no longer need to
import music into the player but they would automatically show up.  Plus it has support for tags and various other goodies.  

More information here:

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker

You can get it from GNOME CVS apparently, and uses an embedded
mysql database.

The one main advantage I see is that it already has a full DBus API.  

Hopefully, Jamie has subscribed and he can talk more about it.

sri